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A Jicarilla Indian Chief, in ceremonial dress, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.

Salish people in a canoe on Puget Sound, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, ca. 1900.

A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.

A Piegan man, Iron Breast, in ceremonial dress. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.

A Piegan encampment, North America: tipis, including a decorated medicine tipi (centre). Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.

Plains Indian tipi, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.

A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.

Go-Shona or Yo-Shona. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1903.

A Navajo man in ceremonial dress representing the Yebichai god Zahabolzi (Zahadolzha?). Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.

A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.

Zuni medicine man, New Mexico: reclining on a blanket wearing only a loin cloth, showing his back and his face in profile. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis.

Indian days of the long ago / by Edward S. Curtis ; illustrated with photographs by the author and drawings by F.N. Wilson.

A Piegan encampment, North America: tipis, including a decorated medicine tipi. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.

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Edward S. Curtis

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Images by Edward S. Curtis

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Zuni medicine man, New Mexico: reclining on a blanket wearing only a loin cloth, showing his back and his face in profile. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis.

Indian days of the long ago / by Edward S. Curtis ; illustrated with photographs by the author and drawings by F.N. Wilson.

A Jicarilla Indian Chief, in ceremonial dress, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.

A Piegan man, Iron Breast, in ceremonial dress. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.

A Piegan encampment, North America: tipis, including a decorated medicine tipi. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.